Professor Aoife Foley

So if we, the different targets, then, you know, people who were defaulting, people who were being disconnected, people who were going into arrears, they would be supported through those tariffs so that they don't get a bad credit rating.

What happens at the moment is,

Everybody is affected by this, even businesses and companies, whereas the tariffs, they use and operate the system in a better way.

That's the key thing, I suppose.

If we look, people mention data centres having them getting cheaper energy from wind farmers.

The reason why they do that is because it's codified through the dispatch signal to the offtaker who's the data centre.

If we do this with tariffs and the regulator does it, which is what NISO did and is doing, then we can do the same thing and have different tariffs for different income groups.

One thing I want to point out is it's not going to be free energy and we can't have free energy.

We won't be able to run the system.

OK, but it's about a social cost that's managed at source rather than taking money out of the cash flow in the economy.

in our balances, which is everybody's giving out about that, you know, if we take it from Peter, you know, if we take it from Paul, then Peter won't get it.

We have to manage that.

The other item is the location and marginal pricing and batteries in different parts of the system in different issues.

By using this tariffing system and the codifying of it, you overcome that hurdle.

We see the impacts of locational marginal pricing in the US, where different states and different even districts within states can have different energy prices, which can be prohibitive for development and local economies.

We can't do that.

That's the challenge with LNP.